UrBC, Chelyabinsk, November 3, 2017. ChTPZ Group shareholder Andrei Komarov helped coordinate a children’s musical contest in Chelyabinsk Oblast, the company press service reports. Now the musical called Look at Me Flying! will open the Group’s 15th Snezhnost Charity Festival. The title was suggested by one of the students at the children’s musical school Valeria Korolkova. The best title contest opened on the day musical rehearsals began in October. The young actors involved in the musical, children from the Group’s Culture Palace arts and crafts clubs, and children from Foster Home 8 all

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 3, 2017. Sverdlovsk Oblast-based Russians placed 469 complaints relating to quality and safety of medical services they received with the local division of Roszdravnadzor in the nine months of the year. This was 26% more than one year earlier, Roszdravnadzor reports. The overall number of queries rose by 32.7%, from 660 yo 876. In addition to complaining about the quality of medical services, locals also asked questions about state-funded medicines and distribution of prescription drugs, medical goods, and medical appliances. There are 23.67 queries per every

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 2, 2017. Thanks to ChTPZ Group shareholders Andrei Komarov’s and Alexander Fedorov’s funding and efforts, a book called Fedor Danilov. The Legendary’s Director’s Life Chronicles came out in time for the Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ) former director’s 110th birthday, the company press service reports. The book dwells on the life and work of Fedor Danilov, a prominent metallurgist who ran PNTZ for over three decades. It was under Danilov that the plant grew to become one of Russia’s largest metallurgical enterprises. ‘Fedor Alexeyevich Danilov believed

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 2, 2017. EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) won in the national Russia’s Environmental Leader 2017 Contest as the Best Environmentally Responsible Ferrous Metallurgical Enterprise, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s corporate relations department reports. The awarding ceremony took place during the International Human Health & The Environment 2017 Forum in Moscow. The contest was coordinated by the Federation Council, the State Duma, and a number of Russian Federation ministries. ‘EVRAZ NTMK keeps working to reduce its environmental impact

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 2, 2017. ChTPZ Group and MISIS Moscow University of Science & Technology are now implementing a leadership program together, based on the university’s master degree programs, the company press service reports. The program involves studying at the college, working at the Group’s Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant and Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant, and contributing to innovative developments. Students can major either in Metallurgy or in Technological Machines & Equipment. ‘ChTPZ Group is Russia’s flagship enterprise in the pipe-manufacturing sector and in the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 2, 2017. EVRAZ Holding’s West Siberian Integrated Metallurgical Works (ZSMK) developed a technology for making new rail varieties, some of which have no counterparts anywhere in the world at the moment, EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s corporate relations department reports. ‘The new DT400IK rails are an improved modification of DT370IK type and are meant for the more complicated sections of the railways; these rails proved 13% more wear-resistant than the general, all-purpose rail type. The new rails also proved stronger throughout the entire rolling surface and have a

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 2, 2017. Rosset’s Federal Grid Company United Energy Systems (FCG UES) got certified as ready for the fall/winter of 2017/2018, the company press service reports. The certificate proves that the company’s United Energy Systems are fully prepared to operate under the season’s maxim workload in seventy-seven Russian constituencies where the company runs its facilities. The certificate was issued after a special inspection by an interdepartmental committee consisting of representatives of Russia’s Energy Ministry, Rostechnadzor, UES System Operator, Russia’s

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 1, 2017. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) is offering its customers a new deposit scheme with annual interest rate of 8.5% at the start of the winter holiday season. This is a flexible deposit option, as you can both add money to your account and take some cash out, the bank’s press service reports. The deposit can get opened at any of the bank’s branches, where an expert will do the exact interest yield calculations for you, inform you of all the terms and conditions, and answer your questions. You can also set up the deposit via your

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 1, 2017. A group of Russian Railways delegates came to EVRAZ Holding’s West Siberian Integrated Metallurgical Works (ZSMK) to look at the plant’s rail production facilities and talk about the two companies’ strategic cooperation; this was all part of a two-day New Railway Solutions Conference, the company press service reports. ‘EVRAZ and Russian Railways work together to improve this country’s transport security as well as the quality of railway freight forwarding. ZSMK keeps designing new railway produce based on its key partner’s current needs,’ says EVRAZ

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 1, 2017. ChTPZ Group recently supplied a new, experimental set of pumping and compression pipes with F 3.2 threaded joints to Surgutneftegaz. The pipes were made at the Group’s Finishing Center at Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant, the company press service reports. The pipes (diameter: 73 mm; layer thickness: 5.5 mm) are used in the formation hydraulic fracturing process, which is one of the ways to increase an oil or gas well’s output, and for a number of technological procedures in straight and inclined wells. The pipes are very durable because they are made from a

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, November 1, 2017. The management of the South Urals Chamber of Commerce & Industry recently negotiated with representatives of the Chinese province Heilongjiang’s international trade committee the CCI’s press service reports. ‘The talks covered discussions on a number of joint projects to improve Chelyabinsk Oblast and China’s economic ties. This is all part of a cooperation agreement Ural Federal District’s CCI Association signed with China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) during the China-Russia EXPO this June,’ the press service says. It was

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, November 1, 2017. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) directed RUR 223m to working conditions improvements last year; as a result, the plant now has fewer jobs with hazardous factors, MMK Information, PR & Advertising Department refers to the plant’s Jobs Safety and Industrial Safety Director Alexei Beltyukov. According to Beltyukov, a special working conditions evaluation procedure has been carried out at 76% of all the workplaces. The remaining 24% will get inspected in 2018. An ad hoc committee gets set up by the Director-General’s order every year, an

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 31, 2017. Russian Copper Company’s Uralgidromed in Polevskoy, Sverdlovsk Oblast, was given a thank-you letter from Governor of Sverdlovsk Oblast Evgeny Kuivashev following the local job safety and working conditions contest. Russian Copper Company’s press service reports the contest was held among the constituency’s ferrous and no-ferrous metallurgical enterprises, ore mining companies, and companies in the ferrous alloy industry, agriculture, food and processing industry, and healthcare sector. The contestants got evaluated on the basis of their working

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 31, 2017. Rosset’s Federal Grid Company United Energy Systems (FGC UES) competed the overhauls of two autotransformer units at its 500-kilowatt Kholmogorskaya Power Substation and 220-kilowatt Urengoy Substation in Yamalo-Nenetsky Autonomous Region, the company press service reports. The goal was to ensure more reliable power supply to oil and gas companies operating in the area and to the key cities of Noyabrsk and Novy Urengoy. ‘The overhauls included inspection of switchgear and the active parts of auto transformer units. The auto transformer unit at Urengoy

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 31, 2017. Sinara Group’s TMK CHERMET is now working on an investment project to upgrade its production site in Bataysk (a satellite town next to Rostov-on-Don), Sinara Group’s press service reports. ‘In 2018 and 2019, the production site’s capacity will increase by 30% and its concrete-coated space will expand to 1,600 m2; we’ll also purchase some extra equipment: mobile scrap metal loaders, heavy-duty trucks with fork lift devices, and tractor-semitrailers. This will result in 45 new jobs. The company intends to direct over RUR 100m to the initial stage of this

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 31, 2017. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) integrated an inter-banking anti-fraud system designed by the National Bureau of Credit History (NBKI AFS) into its own scoring system, the bank’s press service reports. The service was developed with immediate help from Russia’s leading retail lending banks and on the basis of their many years’ lending experience on the national market. AFS evaluates loan applications against nearly two hundred criteria that get updated with the banks’ new data on borrowers on an ongoing basis. The system can

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, October 31, 2017. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) got rectified for compliance with the international standard ISO 50001 recently, the company Information, PR & Advertising Department reports. MMK first got ISO 50001 certified in September 2016. ‘The auditors confirmed that, a year after the certificate has been issued, the company’s power management system fully meets all the standard requirements. The audit procedure went smoothly thanks to preparatory work (MMK’s fourteen internal audits of their power management systems in accordance with the top

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 30, 2017. Starting October 29, 2017, Ural Airlines will operate on a winter schedule (valid through March 24, 2018), with flights to over 150 destinations in twenty-three different countries, the air carrier’s press service reports. ‘The airline tries to offer most of its flights all the year round, which means the better part of the winter schedule will not look any different. For one, the most popular domestic flights are still available to our customers on the same days as always,’ the press service says. However, two things will be different: there are now

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 30, 2017. The 8th HR Smart Conference will take place in Yekaterinburg on Friday, October 27, 2017, the Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s press service reports. The event is coordinated by rabota66.ru and the UBRD. This year, invited experts will speak on how a company can make its employees loyal to its values, present reports on non-financial motivation mechanisms and on the importance of employee training, and will share their hiring expertise. The bank’s Head of Employer’s Brand Development Center Elena Khrenova will talk about turning a company

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 30, 2017. Sinara Group’s Sinara Development, the general contractor for the reconstruction of Yekaterinburg Stadium in time for the world football championship of 2018, completed all the urban improvements on the arena’s premises, the Group’s press service reports. The improvements involved some 8 hectares of space. More than 150 coniferous and deciduous trees got planted around the stadium, as got some 2,000 shrubs, 180 m2 of Alpine rock gardens, and 340 m2 of perennial flower beds. There is an 800-meter running track around the stadium, made from professional,